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Terseness</h2>

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The terseness value is used to specify decreasing verbosity for normal  output
to most log files. The level can be set to 0 through 9 with 9 specifying the
least verbose output. This parameter does not affect warning and error 
messages which will always be presented. The standard value of terseness is 0
(most verbose). The following scheme describes the output that can be expected
for each range of values:

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    <TD>0-2 <TD>verbose 
    <TD>All output except debugging information will be presented.
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    <TD>3-5 <TD>curbed  
    <TD>The output is somewhat limited. Program timing information,
        status reports on the opening and closing of files, the values
        to options set and more details are not echoed. A level below
        6 will also prevent some long listings but still have the 
        program echo a summary line that would not exist with a higher
        value.
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    <TD>6-9 <TD>terse   
    <TD>Least amount of output will be presented. Even a terseness
        value of 9 will not prevent warnings and errors from being 
        reported. Information on e.g. environmental values, values to 
        menu options etc. will not be echoed at this level.
        A value of 9 will even prevent the menu from being shown so
        might not be very useful for interactive work outside the aqpc
        script.         

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It might be handy to do a verbose rerun after a less verbose run to locate
a specific item in case a problem occured.


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